Hacker News: jjuel

New comment by jjuel in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

jjuel — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:57:30 +0000

"That's gold, Jerry. Gold."

New comment by jjuel in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

jjuel — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:56:05 +0000

"There are dozens of us...DOZENS!"

New comment by jjuel in "Window Sweaters"

jjuel — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:05:50 +0000

To me yes. The work is the fun part. I became a dev because I enjoyed the coding and the work. If all you care about is an end result then that is fine. It is just my opinion that projects like this had more magic to them before LLMs. LLMs are making things soulless.

New comment by jjuel in "Window Sweaters"

jjuel — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:45:41 +0000

Things like this used to be a lot cooler before LLMs. It used to show someone actually spent time and worked hard on something mostly pointless. Now you can just point an LLM to it, and be done. Projects like this have lost their magic.

New comment by jjuel in "Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws"

jjuel — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:50:32 +0000

Casinos of all kinds are banned in Utah.

New comment by jjuel in "Arc Is Sunsetting"

jjuel — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:06:57 +0000

I guess I don't know. To be fair I didn't use Arc much since I was mostly on Linux. And haven't used it in maybe a year or so.

New comment by jjuel in "A farewell to Arc browser"

jjuel — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:59:07 +0000

So the new browser uses AI to read your tabs? No thanks!

New comment by jjuel in "A Modern Web App in C"

jjuel — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:39:53 +0000

I just really wish it had some examples of code in there to get a better idea of what is really going on. It sounds interesting.

New comment by jjuel in "The Slow Formation of Durable Software"

jjuel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:06:07 +0000

They will also take you down a road you didn't want to go down at a breakneck speed too. And you don't realize you didn't want to go down that road. Sure once you figure out you didn't want that it is quick to go back and start again, but how many times do you need to do that until you get where you wanted to be? Are you really saving time in the end?

New comment by jjuel in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

jjuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:39:18 +0000

I once got a cold LinkedIn message that got me a job that I loved. When I was looking this year though it did NOT have the same results. Lots of bots and just recruiters who see a open to work and just add you out of no where with nothing. I did get help from people I actually know on LinkedIn, but other than that it was definitely not helpful in the job search.

New comment by jjuel in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

jjuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:36:06 +0000

I thought maybe that was just mine because I had been laid off in January so my algo got messed up.

New comment by jjuel in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

jjuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:05:46 +0000

No doubt there are highly skilled engineers there, but saying "those" might be a stretch. It is possible someone there has worked on an SR-71A, but it last flew 27 years ago. It was originally introduced 60 years ago. A lot of the knowledge about this plane has most likely unfortunately passed on. That isn't to say people can't learn, but it is a tougher starting point. Honestly, almost like starting over I would guess.

New comment by jjuel in "You said no MCP"

jjuel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:43:41 +0000

I have already basically removed any extensions I had installed. There are still a couple, but I am going to remove those as well. Except maybe a web search one as that is something I use often. Going to remove all skills and anything else as well. I am a simple man when it comes to agent programming.

New comment by jjuel in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

jjuel — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:00:33 +0000

True. I actually don't read or enter threads for stuff I know will piss me off. So yeah makes sense.

New comment by jjuel in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

jjuel — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:53:49 +0000

But couldn't a bunch of posts that are just coming here to lift up one of Elon's products also be counter productive? You can never tell if someone is genuine when reviewing a product he put out. I think that is a big problem as well.

New comment by jjuel in "I said no and Apple said yes"

jjuel — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:05:15 +0000

Someone did though. Otherwise they wouldn't have created FilePilot. I have never had issues with any file manager in Linux. Explorer on the other hand is annoying as heck. Of course I am not picky with a file manager as I rarely use it on Linux anyway.

New comment by jjuel in "What Sun got wrong"

jjuel — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:03:10 +0000

I mean in a way isn't that what Oxide is doing? Aren't they just providing you the hardware to do cloud hosting yourself on prem?

New comment by jjuel in "EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

jjuel — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:46:39 +0000

If you are talking about the billionaires and trillionaire who spent as much as they could to get this elected then you are correct it is what THEY wanted.

New comment by jjuel in "Building on ATProto"

jjuel — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:28:43 +0000

I love tangled, but there are certain repos I don't want public. So with all ATProto data being public you can never have a private repo which is disappointing.

New comment by jjuel in "Wayland Nvidia"

jjuel — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:55:20 +0000

Came to say something about the ads too. Ended up not even reading the article it was so bad.